: For all the negative campaigning, aimed at shifting an ever-shrinking undecided voter contingent, including Donald Trump's last minute media grab on his $5 million offering for Obama disclosure documents (now there's a man with a real journey into insignificance); America's philosophical divide became even more apparent. Republicans turned out the angry white gentlemen and rural vote, while Democrats solidified their captive hold over urban, Black, Hispanic and female voters.

The only thing that will derail Obama's second term is a sudden pullback in the economy. The irony is that the improved conditions that we are witnessing today, the ones that will likely engineer an Obama victory, are the same ones that will potentially work against the economy during his second term.